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Action Message Handling for SYSPLEX, MCS, and RCS Consoles

An action message is a highlighted message on a sysplex, MCS, or RCS console. If CA Automation Point encounters an action message, it performs additional processing, including:

• Displaying the message in the action message area of the Merged Message window
• Displaying the message in the action message window
• Deleting the non-highlighted messages above the action message so that all action messages float to the top of the screen. (If the highlighted messages fill more than half the screen, CA Automation Point begins deleting the highlighted messages that are near the top of the screen.)

When an action message receives a reply, the action message indicator changes. CA Automation Point recognizes the change and removes the action message from the action message area of the Merged Message window and from the action message window.

If the message receives a reply after it clears from the console window, CA Automation Point does not recognize that it should clear the message. The message remains in the action message area until it scrolls off the screen, and it remains in the action messages area of the Merged Message window until it either scrolls off the screen or someone manually deletes it. CA Automation Point periodically issues a command to delete messages from the terminal session.

Important! When a line on the screen does not begin with a time stamp, CA Automation Point assumes that the line is a continuation of the previous message. CA Automation Point concatenates the two lines and processes them as one message. If a message is longer than two lines, CA Automation Point processes the first line through rules, and processes each additional line using the characteristics of line one for display, printing, and logging.

Note: Using a Model 4 console improves action message handling.